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PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Giorgio Natili
Book Image

PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Giorgio Natili

Overview of this book

<p>You don’t have to know complex languages like Objective C to compete in the ever-growing mobile market place. The PhoneGap framework lets you use your web development skills to build HTML and JavaScript-based mobile applications with native wrappers that run on all the major mobile platforms, including Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 8.</p> <p>"PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide" will help you break into the world of mobile application development. You will learn how to set up and configure your mobile development environment, implement the most common features of modern mobile apps, and build rich, native-style applications. The examples in this book deal with real use case scenarios, which will help you develop your own apps, and then publish them on the most popular app stores.</p> <p>Dive deep into PhoneGap and refine your skills by learning how to build the main features of a real world app.</p> <p>"PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide" will guide you through the building blocks of a mobile application that lets users plan a trip and share their trip information. With the help of this app, you will learn how to work with key PhoneGap tools and APIs, extend the framework’s functionality with plug-ins, and integrate device features such as the camera, contacts, storage, and more. By the time you’re finished, you will have a solid understanding of the common challenges mobile app developers face, and you will know how to solve them.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
PhoneGap 3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Contacts API


You can easily access the contact information stored on a device using the PhoneGap API. The Contacts API is an implementation of the W3C's Pick Contacts Intent API (an intent that enables access to a user's address book service from inside a web application). You can read more about the W3C specifications at http://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-api/).

In order to allow your app to access and manipulate the contacts stored on the device, you have to update the specific platform configuration files. The following table lists the information you need to add to the configuration files for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone apps. For a complete list of all the supported platforms refer to the online documentation at http://docs.phonegap.com/en/edge/cordova_contacts_contacts.md.html#Contacts.

Platform

Configuration file

Content

Android

app/res/xml/config.xml

<plugin name="Contacts" value="org.apache.cordova.ContactManager" />
 

app/AndroidManifest.xml

<uses-permission...